Accredited CBT Psychotherapist with 17+ years’ experience across NHS, charity and private practice, specialising in chronic pain, persistent symptoms, and long-term health conditions.
Book a sessionI am an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with over 17 years’ experience working across the NHS, charitable organisations, and private practice. My work focuses on supporting adults living with chronic pain, persistent physical symptoms, and long-term health conditions, particularly where symptoms are exhausting, fluctuating, or difficult to fully explain or manage medically. I specialise in the psychological and emotional impact of ongoing health difficulties, including pain, fatigue, gastrointestinal conditions, migraine, tinnitus, and other chronic or functional symptoms. Many of the people I work with feel worn down by symptoms, uncertainty, and repeated attempts to “fix” their body, and may also experience anxiety, low mood, frustration, or a loss of trust in themselves. My approach integrates evidence-based CBT with mindfulness-based and mind–body-informed approaches. I am particularly interested in how stress, threat, and learned patterns within the nervous system can contribute to the persistence of symptoms, and how gently working with the mind–body connection can support symptom regulation, resilience, and quality of life. Therapy with me is collaborative, compassionate, and carefully paced. I aim to create a space where people feel understood rather than pushed, and where change happens gradually and sustainably. Sessions are adapted to each person’s capacity, needs, and goals, and I work alongside medical care where appropriate. Alongside my professional training, my work is informed by lived experience of chronic health conditions, which helps me bring realism, sensitivity, and respect for the limits that long-term symptoms can place on daily life. I intentionally work with a small number of clients at a time, allowing for focused, thoughtful support. My aim is not to promise cures, but to help people calm their system, rebuild trust in their body, and find ways of living more fully alongside ongoing symptoms.